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In update 2021.005, when using the HC Launcher, if Instant Action is enabled and a commondb BattleSet is selected in the HC Launcher, the game may error out as a result of Instant Action conflicting with the BattleSet selection. This may occur after resetting the HCE registry settings in windows. Please let me know if you need more details. Eric

Thanks Tony! The launcher even works again! Now I can fix the rest of my PC's!

I feel the first priority should be the launcher. With the problems that some new members are having trouble installing them in the HCE directory to use some of the user designed scenarios. It will help to keep their frustration level down and maybe cause you to spend time with them individually. In the end TonyE may have more programming time. I feel working to make the Annexes in the db to almost unlimited size would be the next priority. We need to get Brad interested in updating the Official HC db and HCDB2. The only annex I have to watch in my magazine annex which I use as a simulation of underway replenishment. Modernizing the airfields to due to the addition of UAV's into the game needs to be addresses. I don''t really understand the programming aspect of the issue since I just assumed that the PE took care of that . I guess that's why TonyE gets paid the big bucks to do the programming and integrate our requests into the HCE code.

Yes. TonyE is the remaining programmer for Harpoon. He is still updating HCE when we find bugs in the software. He is trying to make some enhancements to the HCE interface. There are a group of dedicated long time players that help out when necessary. This is all voluntary as is TonyE's bug fixes and enhancements. We do it for the love of the game. I have been playing Harpoon since the days of the 5 1/4 floppy disk. I am usually in the Harpgamer Chat room if you have a Irc client. I tried to get the link to the free iRC chat room that TonyE had on the Harpgamer web site but the link doesn't work. Let us know if you need help with setting that up.

I have sent TonyE an email. Hopefully he will have the time to help you this evening.

That one I can't help you with. We will have to get TonyE involved at this point. I wanted to let you know that tomorrow night form 7:15 to 9:30 there is a Zoom gathering for Harpoon Classic . I have included the link below.

The full download is 665,600 KB One thing I wanted to ask you in my original message is if you tried to do the installation using "Run as an Administrator. " You will get a Serial Number not valid message if you need to install or run HCE.

Good Evening. What issue are you having with the Installation of HCE? The Ultimate version should work with any modern PC including Win 10 64 bit. The Beta updates available on this forum even have an update so the the Scenario Editor will work with Win 10 64 bit. Below is the link to the beta updates. Please let us know if you need additional help. Have a great day, Eric

I forgot to add in my post last night that I also split air groups and did not have any issues.

Played 66 minutes of autosave.0036 with out a crash. Sank Red TG and shot down AC and Helos Played saved game at 5 second time.

I have found out the hard way that if you try to import the the HC_95to10_DB after editing some of the bases all the bases that have not been fixed are deleted by the PE. Early this morning I tried to make a backup of what I have done so far and then import back into the PE the PE would crash and lost everything that wasn't completed. I did a test this morning with just the Typo 093 Chinese sup and when I tried to import the db back into the PE all the bases with missing info were gone. I am back to ground 0 and starting over. Tony, do you have any ideas on how to fix the deleted base issue of is in a Microshaft Access issue!

Thanks, Tony. I was close in my length estimates. I did exactly that with the number of runways!

Tony, One of the things I need to know is what are the lengths of runways in HCE. STOL Small Large Very Large One other question is how would you handle airbases that have multiple runways that are different lengths. I only need this information for the bases that are not in the HCE PE. I would also like to have permission from divefreak to update his db. I'm not asking to post it to the forum,but if he would like to look at it and post it I wouldn't have a problem. Your input would be appreciated. Thanks, Eric

Last night I loaded Harpoon Commanders Edition 2008.024 onto a laptop. I opened up the PE and found that the same base information was missing from the HC_95to10_DB. The scenario Surprises in the Pacific By JSF will run. I ran the game for 30 min game time without any problems with GE 2020.009. You can even edit the scenario with the SE with 2020.009. and the game still opened correctly. It seems that all other annexes are as they exist in the official HC db. If you try and change anything in the PE that the GetDiskAnnexA Error: !lS_Disk(51627..... appears. Is this an issue or not. It is not for me to decide. However having gone through with my fictional db I feel that this is an issue that needs to be addressed. I am in the process of fixing the base locations in the PE in case. There are over 1600 bases with the majority of them having missing information in their records in the PE. Most of the bases are in the current PE, however some are not. Thanks to Google I can find them and their Location and runway length and # of runways. The powers to be are going to have to decide what needs to be done!

When loading SE gets GetDiskAnnexA Error: !lS_Disk(51627..... Figured out the issue was in the Installations Annex, ID 51627 Japan airbase Komatsu was missing the following: No Side No Lat or Long No Runway Type No Runway Count Upon further investigation after fixing Komatsu, loaded the scenario again and received another Base Get annex error. Looked in the db and found and found various bases missing the same info on them. I was asked to look into a problem from another forum member who was receiving the GetDiskAnnex errors after making a small edit to the db. Prior to editing the db he was unable to edit the bases.

The Spratly 3 scenario hasn't been on HarpGamer for a long time. It requires a special database. I know because I created that scenario.

It looks like from you message that you are using the current version. I found the latest version on Harp Gamer after I sent my reply. Did you extract the zip file into your your Matrix/HUC directory?

Good Evening, For us to help you out we need some information. At the bottom right of the screen next to the time there block that shows the version of the HC database you are using. The current version of the Official HC database is HCCW-140314 (1950-75 era). What is the current version of the database you are using? It looks like you have got the latest version of HC 2020.009. Please let us know. Eric

Tony, I was able to turn a destroyed Red base into a new Blue base in my monster scenario. Saved scenario. reloaded scenario and all seems to be well. So far so good!

Tony, I checked it out and I can scroll at higher magnifications. Thanks, Eric

Screen resolution is 3840 X 2160

The issue is with the screen Resolution. The Issue occurs art any resolution above 1920 X 1280! Thanks Tony

Thanks to Tony61 I checked my SE Log file and I noticed that I have several encoder errors Logging begins. Version = 2020.008, Build Date = Jul 31 2020, Build Time=23:39:24 0 HARPOON.C:223 - done processing arguments. Activating logging for: 100000 annex.c:1297 - GetAnnexesDisk ticks=2824520 100000 Initannx.c:624 - this scenario is from battlesetnumber 22, using annex version 1 100000 SETUP.C:713 - Loading Strategic map 100000 SETUP.C:719 - Map loaded, hbmStrategicMap = 1703668 100000 Initscen.c:539 - Scenario Database Versions: Res: HCEEFDB-200809,1596990799 Rsr: HC Gold Edition Official DB 1596990799 100000 Initscen.c:543 - reading scenario file version 6, Last UUID=1e4dce92-23c8-4306-b2fd-c9c8ffe624ce, Original UUID=ddebe3c8-a9b8-459c-b40f-33594326b7c3 100000 annex.c:1297 - GetAnnexesDisk ticks=2822627 100000 Initannx.c:624 - this scenario is from battlesetnumber 22, using annex version 1 100000 SETUP.C:713 - Loading Strategic map 100000 SETUP.C:719 - Map loaded, hbmStrategicMap = 1702028 100000 SCENSAVE.C:587 - encoder error 100000 SCENSAVE.C:603 - encoder error

Tony, SE Screen Magnification is a problem. When I went to 2X mummification I was unable ti scroll right or left. I could go up but not down. The same thing happens at the other magnification settings. There is black (land) where water is supposed to be. I was trying to set AD units that were Barges in a very tight area of water. I couldn't move the screen to the right. Attached is a copy of my latest db, scenario file and several screen sshots. This problem has been around for a while, but today was the first time it was a problem. If you have any questions you know where to find me!🙂 Thanks for all you do for HC! SE Screen Magnification.zip

Tony, In the update you just released when you add a base to a scenario and then close the box the SE closes. I was adding a base to Taiwan. I reinstalled hc2020.004GESE and the SE didn't close when I closed the Add Base Menu. Attached are the Scenario and the latest addition of my Fictional db \ave a great day, Eric SE Closes After Adding Base.zip